Other design schools also there.
Category: Design
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Text for proofing fonts
Johnathan Hoefler suggests a better alternative to ‘the quick brown fox…’ for setting type to choose fonts based on a statistically improved selection of words on actual character frequency in common use of the English language.
https://typography.com/blog/text-for-proofing-fonts
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Exporting multipage PDF as images
A common problem for adding stills of a PowerPoint slideshow that has been PDF’d into a video is to export each slide as an image. Automator on the Mac can render/raster each page of a PDF as an image.
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Practical typography by Butterick
Nice book site that covers geek-level intricacies of typography.
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Design machines
Travis Gertz’s essay on the “sameness” of the current crop of web design and solutions to help overcome it.
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Bezier game – interactive HTML
The kind of game and interaction that would have been made in Flash a few years ago, now all done in HTML, CSS and JS.
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FontBureau’s Input – a new coding typeface
FontBureau has released Input a new typeface designed for code. Available in both proportional and monospaced forms.
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Google Noto Fonts – visually harmonise the world’s typefaces
Google has released a new font family – Noto which is designed to visually harmonise wayfinding and other signage, maybe international webpages too. Interesting idea, nice interactive site for playing with the different languages and previewing weights etc. Not sure if this is culturally effective — how much consultation was done with non-roman character using people as to the personality and respect of those faces? Always wary about choosing faces in character sets I know little about.
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Netdiver Mag – reboot
Nice online magazine collecting all things digital creative — worth looking at the motion graphics section for inspiration.